2016
TPP Trade Deal Would Undermine Public Health Systems Around The World, Groups Tell US Congress
Doctors Without Borders and more than fifty groups urge the US Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the grounds that the trade agreement would undermine public health systems…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Lookout cats.
Good Thing Steffie Dion Isn’t American.
If Stephan Dion was America's Secretary of State instead of our bumbling foreign affairs minister he could be headed for a stretch in the pokie.In another graceless, nay clumsy, attempt…
Ingrates, eh?
Transcript from Vaughn Palmer’s Voice of BC, May 2012 Topic: Extra Funding for Ferries Vaughn Palmer: This week…. We’ll start with a parochial Vancouver Island guy who lives in Victoria…
Ingrates, eh?
Transcript from Vaughn Palmer's Voice of BC, May 2012Topic: Extra Funding for FerriesVaughn Palmer:This week…. We’ll start with a parochial Vancouver Island guy who lives in Victoria question. You managed…
Ingrates, eh?
Transcript from Vaughn Palmer's Voice of BC, May 2012Topic: Extra Funding for Ferries, Vaughn Palmer:This week…. We’ll start with a parochial Vancouver Island guy who lives in Victoria question. You…
April 12: Is the Irving press deliberately brainless?
The Liberal and Conservative parties exist for one purpose - to get into power. Since 1867, both have followed that purpose by chasing for the support of big money. That…
Assange on #PanamaPapers
This is a great interview, it’s really thoughtful. What will journalism look like in 5 years? Wikileaks created a whole new model that’s being used in the production of stories…
My Caregiver Worst Fear
Every caregiver has a worst fear - a nightmare scenario that unfolds like an unwanted, sinister guest in the imagination. It might be triggered by the sound of an unusual…
Where Ignorance And Racism Reign Supreme
Yep, that would be Fox News. Watch the following 'deep' sociological discussion between Bill O'Reilly and Donald Trump as the former discusses why black youth are unemployable. How many stereotypes…
Heart of our economy gets ignored
When government is captured by people pursuing fortunes in real estate development and resource exploitation, the interests of all others become secondary. When the bubble bursts, when phantom markets collapse,…
Heart of our economy gets ignored
When government is captured by people pursuing fortunes in real estate development and resource exploitation, the interests of all others become secondary. When the bubble bursts, when phantom markets collapse,…
Heart of our economy gets ignored
When government is captured by people pursuing fortunes in real estate development and resource exploitation, the interests of all others become secondary. When the bubble bursts, when phantom markets collapse,…
Third Party Suspect
R. v. Salomonie, 2015 NUCJ 05: The law is fairly well settled. Evidence that a person other than the accused committed the crime is referred to in the authorities, variously,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Star makes the case for a new crackdown on Canadian tax cheats to not only merely recover money withheld, but also to…
Misapprehension of evidence
R. v. A.F., 2016 ONCA 263: However, it is not enough for the appellant to identify a misapprehension of the evidence in order to succeed. As Binnie J. stated in…
To Grassroots NDP Leapers: Welcome to Blockadia
Let me start this blog post by congratulating grassroots members of the NDP for attending their recent convention in Edmonton, and having the courage to make significant changes within their…
To Grassroots NDP Leapers: Welcome to Blockadia
Let me start this blog post by congratulating grassroots members of the NDP for attending their recent convention in Edmonton, and having the courage to make significant changes within their…